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a syrian civilians continue to flee eastern ghouta reports hundreds have been arrested by the government plus. we don't get tough on the drug dealers were wasting our time. president trump proposes the death penalty for drug traffickers to help tackle america's opioids problem. suspend self driving car tests after a woman is killed by a vehicle. and facebook shares slide as calls call for mark zuckerberg to testify before congress about how a political consultancy got access to data on fifty billion of its users. russia's president vladimir putin appears to have softened his tone towards the west a day after his security and all the six years in office his victory got a cool reception abroad with many international leaders slow to congratulate him

but after meeting with the candidates he said russia doesn't want an arms race and will seek to resolve its differences with other countries lawrence lee has more from moscow. so day one of the mir putin says storage for time in power a demonstration of the difference between how as you get home and increasingly how he's viewed abroad for very many of his supporters here in russia they'll be celebrations at the scale of the victory the validation of these eighteen years in power in a sense that he's guaranteed stability and the forward march of russia but against that a day in which for his so-called european friends and partners it seems like increasingly the knives are out and very many problems still to come. the russian president spent monday basking in the warm glow of his record breaking success he had said he wanted to reach out to his opponents and build bridges abroad meeting with all the decent candidates his language could hardly have been more conciliatory. but you

know we must vote and we will give necessary attention to further strengthening the country's national defense capability but i want to tell you now that no one is going to accelerate any kind of arms race issues if we plan to build relations with all the countries in the world in a way that is constructive we will aim for and of course encourage our partners towards constructive dialogue. fears that his vote share might go down to prove groundless after all even if there was the minor inconvenience of people being filmed stuffing huge reams of ballot papers into boxes still the margin of victory was such that even independent monitors accepted the cheating didn't make much difference it was a one horse race most candidates publicly expressed certainty that the incumbent president would prevail in the election with many of the candidates themselves stating that they did not expect to win the election lect generally in competition

thus efforts to increase the turnout predominated over the comp aim of consistence after his victory on sunday putin thanked his supporters who. one big team he said but the same cannot be said of his relationship with the european union whose foreign ministers met in brussels on monday in recent days russia had accused several countries including sweden and slovakia of holding supplies of the nerve agents used to poison the spice script the european backing of the u.k. position on the poisoning also led germany to question its entire partnership with russia to get mr vibe and the result of the russian election a surprise it's about as much as the circumstance of the election obviously it is impossible to speak a fair political contest as we know it a fact that this result was also achieved and what a spec of night is crimean territory is another aspect which we find unacceptable we continue in the knowledge that russia will remain

a very difficult part oh say that when it comes to finding international solutions that russia is indispensable for germany to question the strength of its relationship with russia is a far far bigger problem for the kremlin than the collapse of its relations with the u.k. at so that's hugely condom a tree language from countries like sweden and slovakia in recent days and it starts to look like a much bigger structural problem for russia with its so-called european partners only adding to the sense of isolation for vladimir putin the real worry for russia is that germany is on the point of signing a big new deal to import russian gas poland with long term hostility to russia is now urging the germans to scrap the deal many russians idolize their president because they regard him as impervious to pressure the strong man who can take on everyone single handed he might say he wants to get along with other nations but as he starts his fourth term more and more countries are lining up against him after

today's foreign ministers meeting in brussels of european union countries is going to be a full european council meeting on thursday and friday of this week now that was supposed to discuss brics its problems as some western europe. countries have in particular with poland in hungary in the states of the rule of law there but given the spy scandal the issues that presented themselves before this weekend's election there's no doubt that issues to do with the relationship between the european union and russia going forward a bouncer present themselves right to the top of the agenda independent experts have arrived in the u.k. to assess the nerve agent used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter by mr tourism a continues to point the finger at russia while that to me a person has demanded the u.k. provide evidence or apologize but it's not clear if the scientific analysis will prove moscow was responsible for the attack is found to be phillips explains the technical experts from the o.p.c. w.

will be collecting samples in and around of what the british government says is the nerve agent know each of the o.p.c. w will be able to make its assessment of whether the british government is correct it doesn't follow however that they will be able to say with any certainty where these particular thong poles were ninety five whether they were actually made in russia or not. the o.p.c. w. will simply be confirming the identity of the substance it may do that in its own laboratory and one of twenty other designated laboratories around the world and get them to help confirm the identity but it will not point the finger of blame at russia for using this particular agent if the finger of blame is to be pointed at anyone it will have to be done through united nations circles meanwhile the rhetorical war between the british government the russian government grows ever

hostile boris johnson is the man the foreign secretary who's led the attack from this side over the weekend in interviews here in london he was saying that there had been evidence over the past decade that russia had kept. stocks of nerve agent and i had been looking at ways in which they could be used in assassination he's been in brussels rallying support from other countries this is a classic russian strategy so trying to conceal the evil of truth in a haystack of law you sound of the station and it really strikes me to do european friends in part today is it twelve years after the assassination that it's on the libyan case in london. today anybody in the. meanwhile we understand that the russian diplomats who are due to be expelled from this country given a week to leave by to resume may in a statement here in the house of commons last week will be leaving person on

tuesday. the syrian government has heavily criticized what it calls turkey's occupation of the town of afraid and is demanding turkish forces withdraw troops allied with the free syrian army seized the region is plain time from syrian crisis forces at the weekend turkey says it plans to expand its military operation to other kurdish held times in syria including man base and called president order and says his forces could also intervene in iraq. you know after controlling the city center of after and yesterday we completed the most important phase of operation olive branch now we will continue this process with members and you know and ras al-ain and chemistry until we remove all of this corridor. reports are emerging that syrian government forces have arrested hundreds of people as they fled the

cynical over the last few days the syrian government backed by russians launched an offensive to retake the rebel held area near damascus months ago since then more than a thousand people have been killed tens of thousands more forced to flee their hodder reports. estimates vary on the number of civilians who have crossed into government controlled territory because of military operations in eastern huta but it's believed to be in the tens of thousands many people found themselves back under government rule as frontlines quickly changed the pro syrian government camp is calling this a victory a liberation but human rights organizations are expressing concern following as of yet unverified reports of people going missing or arrested. no one it's fair minded about the violations that we have seen in places attention by government forces from torture ill treatment sexual violence and even executions in order to ensure

the security of these people that are fleeing from the center. we do need to have independent monitors on the ground thousands remain trapped inside an ever shrinking rebel enclave many of them are wanted by the state because they were involved in opposition activities medics civil defense volunteers are particularly vulnerable so are media activists who the government accuses of being terrorists a reporter working for the syrian opposition orient t.v. is missing the organization says he is being held along with members of his family by the government it is demanding his release. activists and journalists are demanding. the. international. leading through state quote of those on the president of the un and other international community is what is. the pro-government alliance has recaptured approximately eighty percent of the enclave eastern huta is now divided into three

pockets in the north of the largest town duma is surrounded it's the same case in nearby harasta and both are split off from the rest of the area the rebels still control some towns in the southern edge. each rebel faction controls different pockets of her dish controls harass the socialist controls the north and fire local rush man controls the southern towns the three rebel factions are involved in separate negotiations with the russian military they are insisting that the negotiations do not involve an evacuation of civilians and rebels but it is clear that anything short of a surrender will be a nonstarter for the pro-government alliance the situation on the ground is an indication the talks are not going well the pro-government alliance resumed its offensive from the air and on the ground after a brief lull piling more pressure on the opposition since the military campaign

began just over a month ago the russian military and the syrian government have made clear that agreeing to leave to go to other rebel held areas is the only option the opposition has if the military assault is to end. beirut the palestinian president has been hamas for a bomb attack on a convoy a chance forcing the country's prime minister last week president mahmoud abbas described the attack on romney home dollar gaza as despicable and sinful prime minister wasn't hurt when once a bomb exploded as his convoy entered the gaza strip it was heading to a ceremony in an area dominated by the hamas faction. united nations humanitarian chief has given a sobering briefing to the un security council about the situation in the democratic republic of congo mark local says humanitarian needs there have doubled over the last year and millions are in need of aid humanitarian needs caused by internal conflicts have doubled over the last year thirteen million people need

humanitarian assistance more than four point six million children are acutely malnourished including two point two million suffering severe acute malnutrition we're seeing mushrooming epidemics including the worst outbreak of cholera in fifteen years. there is also an epidemic of sexual violence most of it on reported and on addressed and much of it against children that they see seventeen people have died after tropical storm elect him hit the east of madagascar more than six thousand others were displaced that's a gust of one hundred twenty kilometers an hour brought heavy waves mudslides and swollen rivers fifty one people died in january after tropical cycle eva hit the indian ocean island. still to come this half hour break said breakthrough the e.u. and the u.k. reached a deal on a transition phase but still no solutions five. and where did the money go we speak

to survivors of mexico's aren't great chorus still living in tents and waiting for government help six months on. how lie that sandwich is slowly recovering now across much of europe we'll see if it a little more spring like as we go through the next few days spring downpours across the mediterranean sea some theri heavy rain in and around the balkans that will slide its way for the research as we go through the next day or two still some live the showers that are coming into the bear biscay into spy and portugal will see that what's the weather just drifting its way into the western side of the mediterranean so some nasty weather in store here's a go through tuesday some rough weather in day seven celsius there for london and paris temperatures about where they should be but which should be two in moscow with a high of around freezing you'll notice this warming up here as well thought about

the snow that around pushing out of vogue area pushing up into rumania into ukraine that will continue to just push a little further east which as we go on through the next few days warming up to minus one in kiev for wednesday warming up to around eight or nine celsius there for london and paris winds going just west of north so starting to feel that malda ever less cold as starts to push into north western pass all of europe will be cold enough across parts of northern africa have a mixed day also lossy dry on tuesday but temperatures now it is really struggle on wednesday a top temperatures just nine degrees celsius in the cloud and rain. we are witnessing around the word this hungry money but just only looking at how to make the next profit devastating economies devastating ecosystems putting a price on the protection of nature green economy is sound good but it was all

about privatized sation of nature should our environment be for sale but we're trying to do this destroy people to stabilize the country we're giving them a financial incentive to do that pricing the planet at this time on al-jazeera. the mind of the top stories here on al-jazeera there are reports that syrian government forces have arrested hundreds of people in trying to flee to the on click of the east into kuta over the past few days russian president vladimir putin has softened his tone against the west following his landslide election victory saying he has no desire for an arms race and independent experts for arrived in the

u.k. to assess the nerve agent used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter as tensions deepened between britain moscow. well there's been a major step forward in talks between the united kingdom and the european union over brics it the two sides have agreed the terms of a two year terms they should face around a year before britain is due to withdraw is designed to reduce any suffering shots on britain's departure will give the u.k. the freedom to negotiate and signed trade deals with the rest of the world strace way but there's still no agreement on the question of the irish border with the u.k. resistance to europe's back up plan of keeping northern ireland in the customs union so you've got eagle has more. much goodwill between the u.k. briggs's secretary david davis and the chief breaks of negotiator michel barnier a lot being made about the fact the progress that has been made that means coming to the agreement on those two main issues there one which would include the rights for european union citizens to be able to have enjoy the same rights as e.u.

citizens already living in the u.k. if they are to enter the country during the transition period this was something that had been resisted initially by the prime minister to reason may she had thought about saying that they should perhaps have different residency rights considering that they would enter the country knowing that the u.k. would eventually be leaving the european union but certainly on the point that this is a point that michel barnier was eager to play up in terms of the progress that is being made after all hard work that both sides put in. this makes it possible today to reassure the four and a half million people british and european who are affected and concerned by break that those are the people who have been our priority from day one the priority of european parliament and the priority of the member state the other issue of course the u.k. is also able to pursue and negotiate third country deals but it will

not be able to implement any of them until the end of the transition period which is the end of december twenty twenty the first day breaks that obviously being the first journey twenty twenty one but the other issue which is a sticking point here is still regarding the situation of northern ireland. is being put into place a backstop deal which would mean that if in the event that the u.k. would crash out without a deal then northern ireland would be protected in that would still be included as in the single market and the customs union to prevent any fracture or any issue between the border with the republic of ireland lot of work having. when put in there of course not forgetting the good friday deal which has been made so much of everything is trying to be placed into a position where tension along that border will be preserved as little as possible during the brics negotiations u.s. president dilma trump has called for the death penalty for criminals to smuggle

large amounts of opioid drugs into the united states it's the most controversial of a range of measures he's posing to tackle the opioid crisis an epidemic of drug dependency that's affecting more than two million americans opioids a powerful painkillers designed to replicate the effects of opium they include legal drugs like morphine and oxy cold on as well as illegal ones like heroin well many opioid addictions begin with legally prescribed medication by twenty twelve doctors in the u.s. we're handing out two hundred eighty two million opioid prescriptions every here well the results have been disastrous in twenty sixteen there were nearly sixty five thousand overdose deaths in the states two thirds of those involved opioids and that's an average of a hundred and fifteen a day the president wants a crackdown drug smugglers is a terrible people and we have to get tough for those people because we can have all the blue ribbon committees we want but if we don't get tough on the drug dealers

we're wasting our time just remember that we're wasting our time and that toughness includes the death penalty. well earlier we spoke with maria mcfarland sanchez moreno the director of the drug policy alliance which campaigns for the decriminalize ation of responsible drug use and she says there are many other options the trumpet ministrations could take. something has to change one of the major factors driving the overdose rise is the war on drugs itself because the fact that the us criminalize is personal drug use that it's primary response to people who have problematic drug use is to lock them up threaten them with prosecution and punishment instead of providing any kind of meaningful help means that people go underground it means that people become much

more vulnerable to to risky behavior to infection because they can't access help because they're more likely to use dirty syringes they're more likely to get hiv hep c. and they're more likely to overdose we know that there are many other countries that have adopted different approaches that are much more focused on public health and other explosions that the city of boston injuring two people it's the fourth such attack in texas city this month they say they've seen similarities in the bombings and they think they're connected they're also investigating whether they attack a racially motivated mariana haun has more. for explosions two people killed and then less than three weeks this is the scene of the latest blast a residential areas south was divorced in the capital of texas two men in their twenty's were hit investigators say they working on the assumption that it is

connected to three package bombs lift on people's doorsteps earlier this month but unlike those explosions this happened in a different part of the city we have seen similarities in the devices that exploded here last night and the other three devices that have exploded in austin starting on march second again this is preliminary information but we have seen similarities the big difference in this device again is we believe that a trip wire was used in this divine. yes the first three explosions all happened in the eastern part of boston package bombs delivered by hand and lift on people's doorsteps the first exploded on much the second killing a thirty nine year old black man and then ten days later two more bombs the first just before seven that sunday morning killing a seventeen year old black man and injuring his mother and another at around midday injuring a seventy five year old hispanic woman police say they're still looking into

whether she was the intended target that the victims from the first three explosions were black or hispanic has led many to speak with the a takes a racially motivated the city's mayor says the two victims in sunday's a tech are white investigators say they still looking into motives but have not ruled out the possibility of hate crime. just hours before sunday's a tech officials raised a reward to one hundred fifteen thousand dollars for information leading to the arrest of whoever is responsible police say they believe the explosions are part of a larger plane and are meant to send a message quite what that message is and why it will be an important part of the investigation made in the hall and now to syria. right telling company says it's working with police after the death of a woman who was struck by one of the firm's driving vehicles in arizona the accident in tempe just outside phoenix marks the first they tallaght say for myself

driving a car yes they say that when it happened the vehicle was in autonomy a small but with a person behind the wheel it was nice to spend it it's on the most vehicle for across the united states and canada. u.s. democratic senator has sent a letter to the facebook c.e.o. demanding a response to allegations that the data of fifteen million users was harvested by the consultancy firm cambridge analytic a whistleblower who worked at the political consultancy firm alleges the data was used to build a system that many may have influenced voters in the u.s. presidential election or cambridge analytical work for president donald trump's campaign and the u.k. breaks that referendum republican and democratic senators are calling for facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg to testify before congress facebook shares fell four percent premarket trading. this data was used to create profiling algorithms

that would allow us to explore mental vulnerabilities of people and then map out ways to inject information into different in the different streams or channels of content online so that people started to see things all over the place that may or may not have been true this is a company really took three cues to the next level by pairing it with algorithms yes president donald trump is issued an executive order banning american citizens from using venezuela's new crypto currency the venezuelan they did they close the door hailed the launch of petro last one as a way to address the country's economic crisis which i'm says the new digital currency is an attempt to circumvent u.s. sanctions against that this whale. is six months since a magnitude seven point one earthquake rocks mexico city killing hundreds of people and even files as more homeless and he survivors are still living in makeshift camps scattered around the city the government is facing increasing criticism as

promised recovery funds continue to face delays john holmes said this report from one of the camps. it's not easy getting ready for work in the morning when you live in a tent that's how it's been for six months for patti since her home was damaged in last september's earthquake she has her few possessions with her. i haven't really slept in six months we take turns who's on watch who is then we look for a chain to close the gate we use ropes there's people who try to get n. a handful of camps like patti's adulthood around the capital thousands of others were damaged tiles is living with relatives or paying rent that they can ill afford elsewhere while they wait for the more than three hundred fifty million dollar reconstruction budget to kick in much of it hasn't done yet and that's partly because the city committee set up to administer the funds led by local lawmakers was plagued by irregularities for experts on the advisory panel resigned in protest

among them. all that in this moment i can say that the money has been managed with the desirable transparency. that's a worry especially with elections coming up c.s.t. man i'm not saying if the use of this money isn't rigorously made transparent it's possible that it's going to end up being diverted as many know and others hope the city's finance secretary freshly assigned to clear up the mess will stop that from happening everything would be to buy and it would be up on the internet platform for all the things we would be able to feel. what was done with it we'd geim the budget. for the reconstruction of was supposed to go from the start the city government has tried to create more checks and balances than elsewhere in the country to stop funds going astray but starting almost a new will mean more delays officials admit that they've been improvising and you

can still really see that there are some temporary centers like this one offering loans but in general information on how to get help there's been little publicized and often inaccurate or confused civil organizations say even the census of the damage caused by the earthquake still isn't complete it's all led to a situation in which people still don't know exactly what comes next and when john homan oh does it a mexico city. well you can find it much more about the stories we're following at our website al-jazeera delts com. top stories on al-jazeera russian president vladimir putin this started laying out his plans for his next six years in office person has received calls from many world leaders congratulating him on islam slight election victory will make him the

longest serving ruler of russia since joseph stalin or islam has more from moscow on persons message senses when. he said on sunday night after he won to the crowds in the square over there but he wanted it was like a big team and he wanted to reach out to his political opponents of the candidates whom he beats and he wanted everybody to be working together and and today he sat with all those candidates and made a series of very very conciliatory observations about things to do with russia's relations with the outside world that he didn't have an arms race and they might reduce the number of weapons they have or they wanted normalization and better relations with other countries as long as those other countries respect russia independent experts arrived in the u.k. to assess the nerve agent used to poison the former russian spy and his daughter it comes amid the deafening tensions between britain and russia to resume continues to point the finger at russia while vladimir putin has demand that the u.k. provide evidence or apologize syrian government's heavily criticized what it calls

turkey's occupation of the city of a free this demanding turkish forces withdraw troops allied with the free syrian army seize the region's main time from syrian kurdish forces at the weekend turkey says plans to expand its military operation to other kurdish held hands in syria. reports are emerging that syrian government forces have arrested hundreds of people who've been trying to flee beyond crave a certain quota over the past few days syrian government backed by russia launched an offensive to retake the area from rebel groups over a month ago. but a major breakthrough breaks it talks between the e.u. and the u.k. the two sides agreeing to the terms of the two year transition period after bersih vs the bloc but there's still no agreement on the question of the irish border the u.k. resistant to europe's back up plan of keeping northern ireland the customs union. those are the current top stories the stream is coming up next of course you can

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